The U.S. Department of Labor acted unlawfully in approving a state wage survey that split farmworkers' piece-rate pay into separate categories, a Washington federal judge ruled, but he rejected a farmworkers union's other ...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to rethink how courts interpret the contours of National Labor Relations Board policies, rejecting a builder's challenge to a Sixth Circuit ruling permitting a union to withdraw from ...(read more)

A Washington federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from demanding that state election officials set aside ballots from hundreds of suspected noncitizens, concluding that federal prosecutors likely over...(read more)

The University of Pennsylvania urged a federal court Friday to keep its lawsuit challenging a United Auto Workers affiliate's bid to arbitrate a dispute over graduate student union coverage, claiming certain first- and sec...(read more)

This week, the Second Circuit will consider a challenge to the $350,000 incentive award a federal judge approved for the representative of the class in a long-running dispute accusing the New York City Board of Education o...(read more)

A Missouri judge granted a fifth year of eligibility to basketball star Robbie Avila, a bespectacled forward for Saint Louis University who briefly suited up for the Los Angeles Lakers' Summer League squad, but his return ...(read more)

A Detroit woodworking and millworking company owes a group of union benefit funds about $287,500, the union and the funds' trustees allege in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Michigan federal court, asking the court to compel t...(read more)

The Seventh Circuit refused to reopen a suit alleging an Illinois county hospital fired a pharmacy technician for requesting a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine, saying it was bound by a recent ruling nixing a ...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a teacher's discrimination suit claiming he was fired out of bias for his Mexican American ancestry, leaving intact a Fifth Circuit decision that concluded he hadn't show...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former information technology employee's invitation to clarify whether workers' placement on performance improvement plans that don't result in termination or changes in pay and ...(read more)

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a white former news anchor's lawsuit alleging she was fired because of her race and replaced with a Black woman, despite her argument that the Fifth Circuit used an improperl...(read more)

Harvard University on Friday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to reject the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's request for hiring data on thousands of applicants and employees, calling it the "latest escalation" ...(read more)

American Cruise Lines fired a server after she reported being repeatedly sexually assaulted by the vessel's executive sous chef, and the company ignored warning signs about him beforehand, according to a lawsuit filed Frid...(read more)

Colorado and its officials urged a federal judge Friday to grant them an early win in a race discrimination lawsuit brought by a former state agency head, contending the ex-employee's claims fall short because the state te...(read more)

A Florida federal judge granted the Trump administration's push to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a Biden-era rule that increased wages for foreign farmworkers in light of a new interim rule that has been issued.

The U.S. Supreme Court will wrap up its November sitting by hearing disputes over whether federal or state law should control how much compensation landowners receive for private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act and...(read more)

A Tennessee federal judge has narrowed but allowed a 5-year-old suit to proceed, finding that workers can pursue claims that a behavioral health company failed to pay them for interrupted meal breaks, while rejecting claim...(read more)

The Ninth Circuit's recent decision to revive wage claims against Jack in the Box doesn't compel an Oregon federal judge to scrap a colleague's finding in litigation against Home Depot, the judge said, rejecting a challeng...(read more)

Police officers who handle drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs for Houston's school district sued the district in Texas federal court Friday, saying they were denied overtime pay for caring for the dogs at home outside their sche...(read more)

Thrift-store operator Savers Value Village Inc. rounded workers' hours in the company's favor, denied breaks and improperly calculated overtime and sick pay, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.

A Southern California glass installation company didn't pay an apprentice for his first two months of work, then paid him a "flat, declining weekly amount that was not tied to the number of hours he actually worked," he sa...(read more)